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For All the Saints
Lawrence R. Holben is an Episcopal clergyman serving a small rural congregation in Mount Shasta, California, where he lives with his partner, Kenneth Solus. He was a member of All Saints' Parish, San Francisco, from 1995-2004 and continued serving as the parish historiographer until 2010. A former screenwriter ("The Hiding Place," World Wide Pictures, 1975), his previously published books are All the Way to Heaven: A Theological Reflection on Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin and the Catholic Worker (Rose Hill Books, 1997) and What Christians Think about Homosexuality: Six Representative Viewpoints (BIBAL Press, 1999), a text widely used in college and seminary Christian ethics courses.
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Religion in America Since 1945
Discusses the Cold War, communism, Eisenhower, the civil rights movement, African-Americans and religion, Mormons, Vietnam, Catholics, feminism, cults, creationism and evolution, American Islam, home schooling, abortion, homosexuality and religion, and the Christian Right.
The Meaning of Sex
An ethicist provides an engaging exploration of the meaning of sex and articulates a Christian ethic for addressing a host of sexual issues facing readers today.
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The Violence of Scripture
No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans. Over the years, these texts have been used to justify all sorts of violence: from colonizing people and justifying warfare, to sanctioning violence against women and children. Eric Seibert confrons the problem of "virtuous" violence and urges people to engage in an ethically responsible reading of these troublesome texts. He offers a variety of reading strategies designed to critique textually sanctioned violence, while still finding ways to use even the most difficult texts constructively, thus providing a desperately needed approach to the violence of Scripture that can help us live more peaceably in a world plagued by religious violence. --from publisher description
Reading 1 Corinthians in the Twenty-First Century
Cornelia Cyss-Wittenstein uses the insights of hermeneutics and other critical methods to offer a new reading of 1 Corinthians.
Abusing Scripture
Virtually all Christians recognize the centrality of the Bible to their faith. Yet many Christians misquote and misapply Scripture regularly. Often those who are most passionate about the authority of the Bible are at the greatest loss when it comes to understanding its message clearly and applying it faithfully. Professor Manfred Brauch believes this kind of mistaken interpretation and application of Scripture is a detriment to the integrity of our Christian witness and contributes to profound misunderstandings in Christian belief and practice. In this practical book written with the non-specialist in mind, Manfred Brauch identifies and corrects a number of basic errors that interpret and a...
What Christians Think about Homosexuality
This is a description of all Christian points of view on homosexuality, what the biblical and theological bases for each are, how they are criticized, and how they answer their critics.
